Untitled

Untitled

Jim Shaw

1998

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows a weird, crowded room with odd scenes in panels. One panel has a person sleeping in a bed, another shows a goat tied to a table, and a third has a close-up of a face with a speech bubble full of strange words. The bottom panels zoom in on creepy eyes and hands, plus a shadowy figure in a corner. Everything looks drawn with pencil only—no color, just black and white. The speech bubble reads things like *"chew it in half, pluck my eyes"* and *"he is made of sin,"* which feels like a mix of nonsense and dark humor. The artist packed a lot of small, unsettling details into tight spaces. If you like this kind of odd, mixed-up drawing, look up Jim Shaw.

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